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Subject to the following conditions:

1

Water may be taken only from bore M35/3285, 800 millimetres diameter and 6.1 metres deep, at map reference NZMS 260 M35:74221-65001.

2

Water may be taken at a rate not exceeding 28.4 litres per second, with a volume not exceeding 17,186 cubic metres in any period of seven consecutive days, and 368,064 cubic metres between 1st July and the following 30th June.

3

Water shall only be used for irrigation of crops and pasture for grazing dairy cattle, as described in the application, on the area of land shown in attached plan CRC070420.

4

The consent holder shall, within six months of the commencement of this consent, install an easily accessible straight pipe, with no fittings or obstructions that may create turbulent flow conditions, of a length at least 15 times the diameter of the pipe, as part of the pump outlet plumbing or within the mainline distribution system.

5

The consent holder shall, on notice in writing by the Canterbury Regional Council, by six months from notice:

Install a tamper-proof electronic recording device such as a data logger that shall time stamp a pulse from the flow meter at least once every 15 minutes and have the capacity to hold at least one season’s data of water taken as specified in clauses (b) (i) and (b) (ii), or which is telemetered, as specified in clause (b).

The recording device shall:

be set to wrap the data from the measuring device such that the oldest data will be automatically overwritten by the newest data (i.e. cyclic recording); or

store the entire season’s data in each 12 month period from 1 July to 30 June in the following year, which the consent holder shall then download and store in a commonly used format and provide to the Canterbury Regional Council upon request in a form and to a standard specified in writing by the Canterbury Regional Council; or

shall be connected to a telemetry system which collects and stores all of the data continuously with an independent network provider who will make that data available in a commonly used format at all times to the Canterbury Regional Council and the consent holder. No data in the recording device shall be deliberately changed or deleted.

The recording device shall be accessible to the Canterbury Regional Council at all times for inspection and/or data retrieval.

The recording device shall be installed and maintained throughout the duration of the consent in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

All practicable measures shall be taken to ensure that the recording device is fully functional at all times.

6

Within one month of the installation of the measuring or recording device, or any subsequent replacement measuring or recording device, and at five-yearly intervals thereafter, and at any time when requested by the Canterbury Regional Council, the consent holder shall provide a certificate to the Canterbury Regional Council, attention: RMA Compliance and Enforcement Manager, signed by a suitably qualified person certifying, and demonstrating by means of a clear diagram, that:

The measuring and recording device has been installed in accordance with the manufacturers specifications; and

Data from the recording device can be readily accessed and/or retrieved in accordance with clauses (b) and (c) of condition 5.

7

The taking of water in terms of this permit shall cease for a period of up to 48 hours, on notice from the Canterbury Regional Council, to allow measurement of natural groundwater levels.

8

When the flow in the Cust Main Drain, as measured at Threlkelds Road (NZMS 260 M35:783-606) falls below 230 litres per second, the volume of water taken from M35/4846 shall not exceed 562 cubic meters per day.

9

If the irrigation system used to distribute water taken in terms of this permit is used to distribute effluent, fertiliser or any other added contaminant, a backflow preventer manufactured in accordance with AS 2845.1 (1998) or the American Society of Sanitary Engineers standards shall be installed within the pump outlet plumbing or within the mainline, to prevent the backflow of water into the bore.

The backflow preventer shall be tested to the standard set out in AS 2845.3 (1993) or an equivalent method within one month of its installation and annually thereafter by a suitably qualified person. A test report shall be provided to the Canterbury Regional Council, attention RMA Compliance and Enforcement Manager within two weeks of each inspection.

10

The consent holder shall take all practicable steps to:

Ensure that the volume of water used for irrigation does not exceed that required for the soil to reach field capacity; and

Avoid leakage from pipes and structures; and

Avoid the use of water onto non-productive land such as impermeable surfaces and river or stream riparian strips.

11

The Canterbury Regional Council may, once per year, on any of the last five working days of May or November, serve notice of its intention to review the conditions of this consent for the purposes of dealing with any adverse effect on the environment which may arise from the exercise of the consent and which it is appropriate to deal with at a later stage.

12

The lapsing date for the purposes of section 125 shall be 30 September 2011.

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